Autonomous Vehicle Routing Optimization: A Survey

Industry 4.0 era is characterized by several technological advances, such as the technology of Autonomous Vehicles, which is expected to increase mobility efficiency. A critical component in the autonomous vehicle navigation process is path planning. To this end, the present survey focused on the investigation of research contributions on the optimal path/routes scheduling of autonomous vehicles. The main objective of the conducted review is the classification of relative research articles, according to their optimization criteria, optimization models, and optimization methods.